25T37 Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof: free-art weekend

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E36, B31.

Once a Berlin terminal station with trains arriving from Hamburg, the present-day renovated structure houses the Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Hamburg Station National Gallery of Contemporary Art), which is a member of the State Museums of Berlin organization.

The museum opens its doors to the public for free beginning today and through the entire weekend. Friday is sunny and mid-20s with a slight breeze: a beaut of a day. By 6pm, the crowds are out and about in force: there’s a debut of a brand new exhibition, and there’s also a massive party out front.

These following three artworks are my highlights from today.

(Please caress this sign when emotions occur.) “Emotionales Denkmal” (mehr in Emotional Memorial), by German artist Hans Peter Adamski, 2012.
“Go Home”, by Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni, 2019.
Among some graffiti on a wall in Dresden is an Arabic line at the bottom: “go home”. But someone has added at right the word “don’t”, so that the more welcoming line now reads “don’t go home.”
“Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment”, by Turkish artist Cevdet Erek. Incorporated into the architectural construction are sound speakers playing a mix of techno music, guttural sounds, and bass-drum pieces selected from the Balkans area, the Middle East, and Turkey. As a “segment” or fragment, the much larger artwork alludes to the Pergamon Altar, which was brought over from Turkey to Berlin in the late 19th-century.
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I made all images and video with an iPhone15 on 13 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

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